According to everyone that I have spoken with that use the Flex line of rigs, as well as to the factory itself, none of the radios are accessible to blind operators. Nothing whatsoever can be controlled other than by the graphical interface. You can't even change frequency, band, volume, or anything else if you can't see the screen. The radios themselves have no "regular" controls of any kind.
Blind hams have no choice other than to scratch Flex radios off of their wish lists. I was prepared to buy a Flex 5000, but was told I might as well throw it in the trash when it arrives. 73 Alan R. Downing Phoenix, AZ From: Jim Johnson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 4:41 PM To: Curtis Delzer Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: flex radio flex radio is a amateur radio tranceiver which has to display and all of the controls as a software package on your computer instead of hardware controls like knobs and buttons. the other part of the radio is the rf transmit and receive which is hardware. I don't know that this package would be very accessable but not sure. I have never seen it, just read about it. Jim Johnson ----- Original Message ----- From: Curtis Delzer <mailto:[email protected]> To: John W. Carty <mailto:[email protected]> ; 'gw-info (List)' <mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 1:51 PM Subject: Re: flex radio What does this flex radio software do? At Tuesday 1/4/2011 10:45 AM, John W. Carty wrote: For any ham radio operators out there using WE, has anyone attempted to use WE with the software defined radio called flex radio? The package is pretty spendy but if the interface is really accessible I might give it a try. But I'd like to avoid wasting my money. John, Kf5dcg If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
